The
Indians, at their first settlement, performed many acts of kindness towards
them, (the settlers).The Indians instructed them in the manner of planting
and dressing the Indian corn.

They
carried them upon their backs, through rivers and waters; and, as occasion
required, served them instead of boats and bridges. They gave them much
useful information respecting the country, and when the English or their
children were lost in the woods, and were in danger of perishing with
hunger and cold, they conducted them to their wigwams, fed them, and
restored them to their families and parents.

Deed
from the Paugasuck Indians. "Twenty parcels of land, by
their names distinguished as follows:

Wecobemeus,
that land upon the brook, or small river that comes through the straight [Straitsville] northward of Lebanon, and runs into
Naugatuck river at the south end of Mattatuck
bounds, called by the English Beacon Hill Brook, and Packawackuck,
or Agawacomuck, and Watapeck,
Pacaquarock, Mequnhattacke,
Musquauke, Mamusqunke, Squapmasutte, Wachu, which
nine parcels of land lie on the east side of Naugatuck River southward from
Mattatuck town, which comprises all the land
below, betwixt the forementioned river, Beacon
Hill Brook and the hither end of Judd's meadows, called by the name Squontk, and from Naugatuck River eastward to Wallingford
and New Haven bounds, with all the lowlands upon the two brooks forementioned.

And eleven parcels on the west side; the first
parcel called, Suracasko; the rest as follows: Petowtucki, Wequarunsh, Capage, Cocumpasuck, Megenhuttack, Panooctan, Mattuckhott, Cocacoko, Gawuskesucko, Towantuck, [the
only name that has survived], and half the cedar swamp, with the land
adjacent from it eastward; which land lies southward of Quasapaug
pond; we say to run an east line from there to Naugatuck river; all of which
parcels of land forementioned lying southward
from said line, and extend or are comprised within the butments
following; from the forementioned swamp, a strait
line to be run to the middle of Towantuck Pond or
the cedar swamp, a south line which is the west bounds towards Woodbury,
and an east line from Towantuck pond, to be the butment south, and Naugatuck river the east butment, till we come to Achetaqupag,
or Maruscopag, and then to butt upon the east
side of the river upon the forementionedlands,these parcels of land lying and being within the
township of Mattatuck, bounded as aforesaid,
situate on each side of Naugatuck and Mattatuck
rivers."

At New Haven a number of Indians were killed in
a skirmish or battle, and the same in Stratford where the fugitives were
joined by the Pequannock Indians and finally the flying Indians took refuge
in a swamp, now located a little north of the village of Southport, where
they were surrounded, and after hard fighting some escaped with their
lives.

John Gallopp and John
Oldham, heretofore described as adventurous sailors and traders along the
coast, stand now as the prominent figures at the outset of the Pequot war.

John Gallop, with one man more, and two little
boys, coming from Connecticut in a bark of twenty tons, intending to put in
at Long Island to trade, and being at the mouth of the harbor, were forced,
by a sudden change of the wind, to bear up for Block Island or Fisher's
Island, lying before Narragansett, where they espied a small pinnace,
which, drawing near unto, they found to be Mr. Oldham's (an old planter,1
and a member of Watertown congregation, who had been long out a trading,
having with him only two English boys, and two Indians of Narragansett). So
they hailed him, but had no answer; and the deck was full of Indians,
(fourteen in all,) and a canoe was gone from her full of Indians and goods.
Whereupon they suspected they had killed John Oldham, and the rather,
because the Indians let slip and set up sail, being two miles from shore,
and the wind and tide being off the shore of the island, whereby they drove
towards the main at Narragansett. Whereupon they went ahead of them, and
having but two pieces and two pistols, and nothing but duck shot, they bear
up near the Indians, (who stood ready armed with guns, pikes, and swords,)
and let fly among them, and so galled them as they all gate under hatches.
Then they stood off again, and returning with a good gale, they stemmed her
upon the quarter and almost overset her, which so frightened the Indians,
as six of them leaped overboard and were drowned. Yet they durst not board
her, but stood off again, and fitted their anchor, so as, stemming her the
second time, they bored her bow through with their anchor, and so sticking
fast to her, they made divers shot through her, (being but inch board,) and
so raked her fore and aft, as they must needs kill or hurt some of the
Indians; but, seeing none of them come forth, they gate loose from her and
stood off again. Then four or five more of the Indians leaped into the sea,
and were likewise drowned. So there being now but four left in her, they
boarded her; whereupon one Indian came up and yielded; him they bound and
put into hold. Then another yielded, whom they bound. But John Gallop,
being well acquainted with their skill to untie themselves, if two of them
be together, and having no place to keep them asunder, he threw him bound
into [the] sea; and, looking about, they found John Oldham under an old
seine, stark naked, his head cleft to the brains, and his hand and legs cut
as if they had been cutting them off, and yet warm. So they put him into
the sea; but could not get to the other two Indians, who were in a little
room underneath, with their swords. So they took the goods which were left,
and the sails, etc., and towed the boat away; but night coming on,and the wind rising, they
were forced to turn her off, and the wind carried her to the Narragansett
shore.